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At the top of her Thursday show, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace showed the clip of President Donald Trump snapping at a reporter who asked him about the new "TACO trade" nickname he's earned.

Financial Times commentator Robert Armstrong invented the joke in his newsletter. TACO stands for "Trump always chickens out," and refers largely to the trade war.

Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to the president of the American Bar Association (ABA) saying that the organization is no longer welcome to weigh in on President Donald Trump's appointments to the courts.

Typically, the ABA scores the qualifications of an appointee to the bench regardless of the administration and partisanship. The ABA hasn't yet made any scores during Trump's latest term but in his first, of his 264 nominees, the ABA rated 187 "well-qualified." Another 67 earned "qualified rankings," and ten were rated "not qualified."

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro snapped at a reporter for asking what he said was a "biased question" about President Donald Trump's tariff policies.

After an appeals court temporarily stayed a lower court's ruling that halted Trump's ability to impose emergency tariffs, Navarro spoke to reporters in a gaggle outside the White House on Thursday.

Steven Cheung, President Donald Trump's notoriously foul-mouthed communications director, has long been kept out of the spotlight and has never been considered for a front-facing White House press secretary role in part because of his weight issues, Trump administration biographer Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast's podcast.

Wolff, who has personally been on the receiving end of several of Cheung's insults including "lying sack of s---" over his unflattering portrayals of the Trump administration in his books, said on the episode that behind closed doors Cheung is a much more soft-spoken person and his profanity-laced tirades are just a persona — something other reporters who have gotten close to the White House have echoed.

A federal appeals court has temporarily restored President Donald Trump's ability to impose emergency tariffs after a lower court ruled he did not have the authority.

The administrative stay from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit came on Wednesday after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that Trump exceeded his legal authority.

An officer from the Johnson County Sheriff's Office in Texas reportedly used a nationwide database to search for a woman who gave herself an abortion.

According to 404 Media, the officer conducted the search earlier this month using a database of license plate readers created by a company called Flock. The search included states where abortion was legal, like Washington and Illinois, the report said.

Social media users railed against Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt for saying the House spending bill, aka “the big, beautiful bill,” will not increase the nation's deficit.

Independent journalist Aaron Rupar was the first to flag the questionable remarks, uttered at an event Thursday.

Calling U.S. President Donald Trump's recent dinner with cryptocurrency investors "the latest in a bewildering gamut of schemes" aimed at making a profit off the presidency, Rep. Jamie Raskin is demanding the White House release the names of those who attended the event—warning that Americans currently don't know whether foreign governments, criminal enterprises, or other groups may have paid hundreds of millions of dollars for Trump's meme coin.

Trump held an "intimate private dinner" with the top 220 holders of his $TRUMP cryptocurrency memecoin, which has no underlying value but nonetheless reached $14 billion in market value after the president announced its release just before his inauguration.

A Florida Republican is demanding that Washington, D.C., name subway trains in its transit system after President Donald Trump and, If it doesn't, he says Congress will cut funding to the public system shared by the district as well as the states of Maryland and Virginia.

Fox5DC reported Thursday that Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) will stop funding the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) unless it changes the whole agency's name to the Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access (WMAGA) — and renames the metro system the "Trump Train."

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) went to X to post some of the triumphs that President Donald Trump had accomplished in just a few short months in office — the only problem is, almost none of what he advertised was actually true.

"Scorecard under @realDonaldTrump: ✅ Stock market up 10% ✅ Egg prices down 55% ✅ Inflation at 5 year low ✅ Gas prices down 20% ✅ $6 trillion+ in new US investment ✅ Consumer confidence highest in 4 yrs," wrote Moreno, who previously worked in the used car business before being elected in 2024. "That’s all in 4 months. Now Republicans in the Senate have to step up!"